Author: Thomas Athol Joyce
Publisher: London, Warner
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Central American and West Indian Archaeology
Author: Thomas Athol Joyce
Publisher: London, Warner
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher: London, Warner
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Central American and West Indian Archaeology
Author: Thomas Athol Joyce
Publisher: London, Warner
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Publisher: London, Warner
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings
Author: César E. Giraldo Herrera
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319713183
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Shamanism is commonly understood through reference to spirits and souls. However, these terms were introduced by Christian missionaries as part of the colonial effort of conversion. So, rather than trying to comprehend shamanism through medieval European concepts, this book examines it through ideas that started developing in the West after encountering Amerindian shamans. Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings develops three major arguments: First, since their earliest accounts Amerindian shamanic notions have had more in common with current microbial ecology than with Christian religious beliefs. Second, the human senses allow the unaided perception of the microbial world; for example, entoptic vision allows one to see microscopic objects flowing through the retina and shamans employ techniques that enhance precisely these kinds of perception. Lastly, the theory that some diseases are produced by living agents acquired through contagion was proposed right after Contact in relation to syphilis, an important subject of pre-Contact Amerindian medicine and mythology, which was treasured and translated by European physicians. Despite these early translations, the West took four centuries to rediscover germs and bring microbiology into mainstream science. Giraldo Herrera reclaims this knowledge and lays the fundaments for an ethnomicrobiology. It will appeal to anyone curious about shamanism and willing to take it seriously and to those enquiring about the microbiome, our relations with microbes and the long history behind them.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319713183
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Shamanism is commonly understood through reference to spirits and souls. However, these terms were introduced by Christian missionaries as part of the colonial effort of conversion. So, rather than trying to comprehend shamanism through medieval European concepts, this book examines it through ideas that started developing in the West after encountering Amerindian shamans. Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings develops three major arguments: First, since their earliest accounts Amerindian shamanic notions have had more in common with current microbial ecology than with Christian religious beliefs. Second, the human senses allow the unaided perception of the microbial world; for example, entoptic vision allows one to see microscopic objects flowing through the retina and shamans employ techniques that enhance precisely these kinds of perception. Lastly, the theory that some diseases are produced by living agents acquired through contagion was proposed right after Contact in relation to syphilis, an important subject of pre-Contact Amerindian medicine and mythology, which was treasured and translated by European physicians. Despite these early translations, the West took four centuries to rediscover germs and bring microbiology into mainstream science. Giraldo Herrera reclaims this knowledge and lays the fundaments for an ethnomicrobiology. It will appeal to anyone curious about shamanism and willing to take it seriously and to those enquiring about the microbiome, our relations with microbes and the long history behind them.
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Catalogue
Author: Walters, Frank, Firm, Booksellers, New York
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 908
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 908
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The Folk Music of the Western Hemisphere
Author: New York Public Library
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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The Folk Music in the Western Hemisphere
Author: New York. Public Library
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Category : Folk-songs
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Category : Folk-songs
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Catalogue: Subjects
Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Publisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Catalogue
Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Publisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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